General Fiction

"You will rarely find a historical novel that's as panoramic yet also as lean, mean, and moving as this." --"Kirkus," starred review  Jabari Asim's debut novel returns readers to Gateway City, the fictional Midwestern city first explored in his...

It's been three years since Aaron Mackie succeeded in helping his friend and mentor, Bishop T.K. Wilson, dig his ministry out of financial ruin. Aaron is also responsible for re-energizing the almost defunct choir into something special. His success has...

Harold and Lucille Hargrave's lives have been both joyful and sorrowful in the decades since their eight-year-old son, Jacob, died tragically in 1966. In their old age they've settled comfortably into life without him.... Until one day Jacob mysteriously...

From New York Times bestselling author Wahida Clark, comes the highly anticipated final installment in the Queen's unmatched Payback series.  Someone wants every member of the consortium dead and they'll stop at nothing to make that happen...

A contemporary American masterpiece about music, race, an unforgettable man, and an unreal America during the Civil War era. At the heart of this remarkable novel is Thomas Greene Wiggins, a nineteenth-century slave and improbable musical genius who...

Harold and Lucille Hargrave's lives have been both joyful and sorrowful in the decades since their eight-year-old son, Jacob, died tragically in 1966. In their old age they've settled comfortably into life without him.... Until one day Jacob mysteriously...

New York Times bestselling author Mary B. Morrison delivers a scandalous story of two women, a sizzling wager, and the fallout that's turned lives upside down. Now, with the only man they've ever wanted at stake, who will go one step too far to claim him?

Dopeman: Memoirs of a Snitch is a complex tale about the life and times of one the biggest drug traffickers the Midwest has ever seen.The FBI has launched an intricate plot to take down one of the most prolific drug organizations in the summer of 2009,...

One of a handful of lawyers in the new state of Oregon, recently widowed Matthew Penny agrees to help Worthy Brown, a newly freed slave, rescue his fifteen year old daughter, Roxanne, from their former master, a powerful Portland lawyer. Worthy's lawsuit...

"Nursing wealthy businessman Chicago DuBois back to health was the least Loretta Lovelace figured she could do. After all, it was her bet that set off Loretta's stalker--and put Madison's husband at death's door. And with Madison out of the country,...

Life is close to perfect for the Reverend Curtis Black and his wife, Charlotte--except their son Matthew and his girlfriend, Racquel, are about to become parents at the tender age of eighteen. Even though Curtis and Charlotte wish Matthew could focus on...

In this second, bloody installment in the Animal saga, secrets are revealed, sides are chosen, and bodies are dropped--it's on! The man ordered to take Animal from the world turns out to be the man who brought him into it. Animal finds himself torn...

In this comic road novel, roles are reversed, race gets reviewed, and a legendary Delta bluesman takes one last ride."A master storyteller, Tom Williams enters the living history of Delta Blues and emerges with his own thrilling tall tale, alive with...

Eric Pete is an "Essence" bestselling novelist. He has also written short stories for the erotic anthologies "After Hours" and "Twilight Moods," He lives in Houston, Texas, with his family. His website is ericpete.com.

In 1946, a young female attorney from New York City attempts the impossible: attaining justice for a black man in the Deep South. Regina Robichard works for Thurgood Marshall, who receives an unusual letter asking the NAACP to investigate the murder of a...

"Nursing wealthy businessman Chicago DuBois back to health was the least Loretta Lovelace figured she could do. After all, it was her bet that set off Loretta's stalker--and put Madison's husband at death's door. And with Madison out of the country,...